Family Activity Advent Calendar....

I love the lead up to Christmas. The excitement, the waiting...it all adds to the fun. So I love the idea of advent calendars that count down to Christmas Day.

The kids have their first chocolate advent calendar this year and I found on Pinterest a cool "activity advent calender" that I added to my Christmas Pinterest Board, so I thought I'd have a go at making one (in fact I think I like mine better!),

 

Once I finally got all the materials and got going, it was great fun! And choosing the activites was cool too. The Pinterest page had some ideas that we used and we came up with a few of our own as well. We strategically placed the activities in the calendar so that busy days weren't made busier with tasks and those that needed a bit more time and effort were done on the weekends. I even made a few spares so that we can change things around next year.



Here are the activities we have used this year...

1. Decorate the Christmas tree
2. Hang lights on the house
3. Colour a Christmas picture
4. Listen to a Chrostmas CD
5. Make Christmas Cards
6. Make a new Christmas decoration
7. Write a letter to Santa
8. Sing a Christmas Song to someone
9. Take photos for Christmas cards
10. Make hot chocolate and stir with candy canes
11. Read a Christmas Story
12. Wrap presents
13. Choose a toy and book to donate (this is my favourite
14. Cut out paper snowflakes
15. Have a sleepover in front of the tree
16. Make Gingerbread men
17. Draw and Christmas Picture
18. Take a gift to your teacher
19. Drive around and look at Christmas Lights
20. Go and visit Santa Clause (at the shops)
21. Make reindeer food (I love doing this with the kids at school)
22. Watch a Christmas movie & eat popcorn
23. Make a treat and take it to a friend
24. Read the "Night before Christmas"

SPARES: visit the Myer Christmas Windows, make a stained glass window (another favourite that I do at school!)

 

I'm really looking forward to doing each of these activities with the kids and hope it helps build the excitement towards the big day!